PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ethnocentrism, Reciprocal Altruism, Yanomami
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Tooby and cosmides = evolution is a succession of designs, each a modification of the one. Darwin = only the fittest designs win out (against environmental resources for survival and. Living things propagate (make from one generation to the next) Evolutionary scientists believe (as stated by steven pinker in how the mind works): that there. Everyone"s unique, we need to look at human nature fundamentals when we study people. John locke believed that human nature is a blank slate (tabula rasa); people can be shaped into their. Different religions focus on different ideas of human nature (christianity- adam and eve etc) Human beings evolved to survive and reproduce; we are all the products of human evolution regardless of what differences we have. Principles of evolution was a replicator (molecule formed by physics and chemistry, not natural selection); world is finite so replicators compete for resources and there are some errors in duplicates.
